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CS programs vary pretty widely in how much they focus on the theoretical/mathematical side of computer science vs. practical software engineering. I was in a similar boat to the CS majors in your comment at one point; I only started le
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Zero values are definitely an issue, and it'd be hard to get rid of them while sticking to Go's imperative/statement-based style. Still, it'd nice to use an Option type instead of pointers.
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Yeah, this. In 1995, about the only mainstream language with generics was C++ with templates. (Same in 2000 when C# was released, incidentally) When Go came out in 2009, though, Java and C# had pushed generics into the mainstream. Additiona
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Ender's Shadow didn't even make the shortlists for the Hugo or Nebula awards.
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Does the Chrome DevTools team use Google's big monorepo and all the tooling around it? If so, that puts the author in a different situation than the vast majority of devs.
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Curious that you put Consider Phlebas behind Matter (my least favorite, by far). My favorite is probably Look to Windward, closely followed by Player of Games and Use of Weapons.
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Yeah, that was just...out-of-nowhere gruesomeness.
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I mean, Player of Games has a pretty slow start too. I love that book, but the initial pacing is IMO its biggest flaw. I know Use of Weapons doesn't depend on any of the other books for its plot, but is it a decent intro to the setting
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And when you need to look up the Typescript playground, it's probably best not to abbreviate typescript as "TS".
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Heck, even with the classical understanding of barter leading to the creation of money, it's not like fiat money immediately replaced it.
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Yeah, I was going to make a similar comment. Also, why does the SpaceX comment in the tweet/article say "full stack"? I wonder if there's a bunch of embedded engineers at SpaceX that aren't being counted in this fig
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As long as you can detect your bug from a script, you can pass the script to git bisect run and it'll run automatically.
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Not a Django person, but I've used a few server-side templating languages, and I agree. I'd love to go mostly/entirely server-side, cut down on boilerplate AJAX calls, and ship smaller/less JS-heavy sites to the browser.
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I'm curious about the bit on module systems; I've heard that the MLs have a more powerful system than most languages, but not having used them, I don't know what advantages it provides/what problems it solves. All the ex
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Looks like SO's architecture is still pretty simple, yeah. https://stackexchange.com/performance
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https://deadlockempire.github.io/ is a good example, focused on multithreading.
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The "How Not to Do It" category is also pretty good: https://www.science.org/topic/blog-category/how-not-to-do-it . My favorite is probably https://www.science.org/content/blog-post&#
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I don't really see how Java is closer to C than it is to Python in terms of what level of abstraction it's working on, could you elaborate?
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Indeed. It's generally an interesting newsletter, covers some interesting topics.
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I didn't realize it was a joke until I saw the author's newsletter about it today. Should've caught it earlier, though, given how different it is from his usual high quality.
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Interesting, I'll have to take a stab at trying something like that. Thanks for the reply!
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Error handling is definitely something to think hard about. Personally, I like Maybe/Either types, especially combined with syntax to make them easier to work with, whether that's Haskell's do syntax or Rust's ? operator
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Definitely a few interesting ideas here. As someone who dabbles in Haskell, I'm certainly all in favor of separating pure code from side-effecting code. I'm not quite sure how the constraint that procedures can't return value
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There's two major differences between that and a proper Maybe type. First, Maybe is composable; you can have Maybe (Maybe a), which distinguishes between Nothing, Just Nothing, and Just (Just a). There's not really a way to repres
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Out of curiosity, how do you go about generating "random valid well defined programs"? I thought about doing something like this for testing my own toy language, but wasn't sure how to go about generating random test cases.
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Early VBA did this, apparently - see https://ericlippert.com/2021/02/17/life-part-38/#comment-119... on Eric Lippert's blog.
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Unrelated to the article, but your description of the 15-410 course piqued my interest. Is there a way to access previous versions of the course materials? I took a look at https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410/ , but it seems li
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It's Haskell-based, but here you go: http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/002_parsers.html
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nearley.js is an Earley parser that sees at least some use. https://nearley.js.org/
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It's Haskell, not Typescript, but http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/002_parsers.html goes over how parser combinators work and how to use them. I've also got a simple example on my github, https://gi

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